Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very different nature is the last essay which deals with Macaulay's Writings. One or two inaccuracies there are, and, for instance, the statement that he left no great amount of literary work behind him. Did Sheridan leave more? All the essays, the poetry, the unfinished history, which I confess seems to me much of the partisan hackwork style of literature, make up a considerable bulk of remains - and then much of his work was in the form of speeches. For the rest, the essay seems to me good, especially as I agree thoroughly with the writer, and never more...
...societies, which are strictly secret in their internal organizations. They pride themselves, and with good reason, on being the finest college literary societies in the United States. Each year, as incentives to literary effort, they each offer to their members between thirty and forty prizes for debate, oratory and essay work, these being available in medals, money and books...
Professor Laughlin discusses Mr. Marshall's "Economics of Industry," as far as it concerns "expenses of production," and Richard Aldrich concludes the "Notes and Memoranda," with a cogent and thoughtful essay on "profit-sharing." The number ends with the text of Article 19 of the Constitution of the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland. This law is of especial interest to the students in Political Economy 7, since it explains the "progressive" property tax in Switzerland. The magazine as a whole, is a valuable on and keeps up the high reputation scored by its predecessor...
...opening article by Josiah Royce is entitled "Tennyson and Pessimism." In this essay Professor Royce endeavors to show that Tennyson has neither changed nor fallen into the hopeless and pessimistic ideas of old age, as so many have lately said, in his "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," but that he has really come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright...
...Yale a prize of $30 has been offered to the senior who hands in the best essay in German on Victor von Scheffel, his life and works...